Maria Elena D'Amelio

Maria Elena D'Amelio is professor of Media and Gender Studies in the Department of Humanities. She is currently PI of the department project "Multimedia Archive of San Marino Memories"; previously she participated in the international research projects "DETECt - Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives," funded by the EU under Horizon 2020 and "Challenges to Democracy and Social Life in European Small States," Erasmus+ (KA2-KA204) European Union (2018-2021). She collaborated on the national research project (PRIN 2015) "Comizi d’amore. Il cinema e la questione sessuale in Italia (1948-1978)”, funded by MIUR. She is a member of the Memory Research Center (UNIRSM - UNIBO) and co-directs the series Senso e Cultura (Il Mulino). She is also member of the interdepartmental group L.E.I. – Gender Identity Lab. She mainly works on film and media history from a cultural studies perspective, stardom studies, gender studies and media feminist theories, transnational television seriality, and digital media. As the Rector's Delegate for International Relations, she is in charge of University internationalization and coordinates the Research Center for International Relations.

EDUCATION

• 2020 Abilitazione (Abilitation) II fascia - SC 10/C1. Teatro, Musica, Cinema, Televisione e Media Audiovisivi.
• 2014 Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University, NY.
• 2008 Ph.D. in Film History, University of San Marino. Dissertation
• 2010 Master of Arts, Stony Brook University, NY.
• 2002 Laurea (B.A.) in Italian Literature, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2014 Stony Brook President’s Award to a Distinguished Doctoral Student
• 2013 Top Graduate Student Award, Stony Brook University
• 2013 AAIS Graduate Student Travel Grant, American Association of Italian Studies

Books:

• Forthcoming La Diva Madre: sessualità, maternità e celebrity culture in Italia.
  Milano: Meltemi.
• 2017 Italian Motherhood on Screen (Maria Elena D’Amelio and Giovanna Faleschini, eds.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• 2012 Ercole, il divo. San Marino: AIEP.

Companies

• Professor, Media Studies UNIRSM - Università degli studi della Repubblica di San Marino (2020)
• Lecturer, Media and Communication Department Fordham University (2014 — 2015)
• Instructor/GTA, Cultural Studies Department Stony Brook University (2008 — 2013)
• Festival coordinator assistant Film Society of Lincoln Center (2009 — 2010)
• PhD Università della Repubblica di San Marino (2005 — 2008)
• Program coordinator san marino rtv (2005 — 2007)
• Instructor IES Abroad (2004 — 2005)
• Curator Assistant Musée du Louvre (2003 — 2004)